Aquino invades Tondo, downplays Estrada’s surge in Mindanao

MANILA, Philippines—Liberal Party standard bearer and Senator Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III campaigned on Saturday in the working class bastion of Tondo, Manila—a known bailiwick of deposed President Joseph Estrada—as he downplayed the increase in the former president’s poll numbers.According to Aquino, he will be campaigning in Mindanao next week and that he expects to get more votes in the South, where Estrada’s poll numbers jumped by 9 points in the latest survey of Pulse Asia.